Haifa University

Major Israeli universities will allow students, faculty to join hostage families strike next week

Israel’s Bar Association and the Hi-Tech Forum announced their intentions to join the Sunday strike in support of reaching a deal to free the hostages.

 Hostage families and supporters rally, calling for the return of the remaining 50 hostages in Hamas captivity, June 28, 2025.
Shay Manspeizer Levin – Fashion Department show at the University of Haifa

From "gender trauma" to "way of life" – 11 young designers reveal a new visual language

 SHARON HESKIA and Avi Levi.

Grapevine, May 16, 2025: Generous gift to the University of Haifa

A joint study conducted by Dr. Ziv Ben-Zion has discovered that it’s possible to predict the severity of PTSD by analyzing brain connectivity patterns as early as one month after a traumatic event.

How to predict PTSD severity by brain connectivity patterns: University of Haifa researcher


Scientists Try Using Mucus from Jellyfish to Clean the Seas

Marine biologists from University of Haifa conduct research with hope of reducing micro plastics from water.

The jellyfish is now called ‘hutinit’

Could a study of sea urchins help scientists develop new cancer drugs?

The team showed that the sea urchin’s anatomy is not only physically but genetically analogous to humans’ anatomy.

Sea Urchin

New Haifa University chairman aims to make a difference in Israel's North

"I have been involved in Haifa for over 30 years, since the CJP, Boston's Jewish Federation, formed a partnership in the city with like-minded people," Bloom told The Jerusalem Post.

Bradley M. Bloom, new chairman of the University of Haifa's Board of Governors

College president visits Haifa U to reiterate opposition to Israel boycott

Oliver’s veto was the first in the Southern California school’s 56-year history, the Claremont Independent student newspaper reported.

University of Haifa

Jerusalem's Hebrew University to host Military Intelligence program

Elite program gives military intelligence cadets a bachelor's degree alongside military and leadership training

The landmark Hebrew University water tower

University of Haifa researchers identify 5,600-year-old Scandinavian salmon

While archaeological researchers have assumed that salmon would have been crucial to the early diet of the ancient Arctic’s inhabitants, there has been little proof until now.

The whitlockite mineral was discovered in hearth sediments from the 5,600 year old Yli-Ii Kierikinkangas site on the Iijoki River in northern Finland.

Serving customers? Smile – but not too much

The findings show that the expression of an emotion – happiness or sadness – at a high level impaired the credibility of the service staff.

A waiter serves people at a restaurant

System devised at University of Haifa can read moods, lies, Parkinson’s

Using this system, researchers discovered that changes in handwriting can reveal when we are lying and can even disclose whether an individual is in the early stages of Parkinson's disease.

University of Haifa.

Israeli scientists discover earliest modern human fossils outside Africa

Jawbone puts Homo sapiens migration 50,000 years earlier, say researchers.

The maxilla (upper jaw) found in a cave in Mount Carmel.

Israeli academic named head of international philosophy body

Dr. Arie Kizel will serve as the president of the International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children for two years.

Prof. Arie Kizel